Singlet molecular oxygen reactions with

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Singlet molecular oxygen reacts with alkenes to give hydroperoxides, which can be further convert into alcohol or corresponding ethers depending on situation. The reaction is carried out by the irradiation of alkene and oxygen with a sensitizer like chlorophyll or a dye. 

Singlet molecular oxygen ( A is an electron acceptor powerful enough to react with olefins in the pseudoexcitation band. The [2h-2] cycloaddition and ene reactions and the stereoselectivities are reviewed in this subsection. 

Following the discovery of the ene reaction of singlet molecular oxygen ( Ap (Scheme 15) in 1953 by Schenck [88], this fascinating reaction continues to receive considerable mechanistic attention today. The importance of a path via the perepoxide intermediate or a perepoxide-Iike transition state [13] or the perepoxide quasi-intermediate [70] was proposed for the ene reactions of singlet oxygen with alkenes affording allylic hydroperoxides. 

On the other hand. Type II process competes efficiently with the electron-transfer pathway in aerobic environments where the concentration of ground triplet state molecular oxygen is relatively high ( 0.27 mM), and singlet molecular oxygen (1O2) is the most abimdant ROS generated under these conditions, with a quantum yield 0.48 (Valle et al., 2011), eqn. 8. It is also possible an electron-transfer reaction from 3RF to 02 to form anion superoxide, but this reaction occurs with very low efficiency <0.1% (Lu et al., 2000). 

Singlet molecular oxygen, Oj, is also thought to arise, perhaps in reaction 4 or 5 (in place of dioxygen). The addition of 02 completes the cast of characters comprising molecules which may mediate the effects of O , since whenever O is formed, H2O2, OH and O2 all may exist in aqueous solutions in the presence of micromolar concentrations of ionic iron which contaminate many buffers. Armed with the capacity to form species with such a variety of affinities for electrons, the PMN is endowed with the ability to initiate a formidable array of chemical reactions, not merely between the various species themselves but also with its own constitutents and those of ingested microbes. 

It has been suggested23,59 that ground-state atomic oxygen, produced in discharges or thermal reactions, can react with ozone to produce a singlet molecular oxygen product... 

If one fact emerges clearly from this review, it is that the rapidly accumulating information about singlet molecular oxygen is not always self-consistent. From the kineticists point of view, it may be difficult to choose which of several rate constants to adopt for a given reaction, and it is felt that a useful purpose is to be served by concluding this review with a table of the published rate constants together with comments about the assumptions made in their derivation (Table IX). 

The reaction of photochemically produced singlet molecular oxygen with molecular entities, giving rise to oxygen-containing molecular entities... 

Photolysis of FL at a silica gel/air interface leads to the generation of 9-fluorenone (FLO) as the only isolable product. No dark reactions were observed and singlet molecular oxygen is not involved in the reaction. Transient spectroscopy shows that both the triplet state and the radical cation of FL are formed, thus indicating that an electron transfer mechanism is involved. Loss of a proton from the radical cation and subsequent reaction with molecular oxygen yields FL peroxide radicals, leading to the formation of 9-hydroxyfluorene. The latter readily photolyzes on the silica surface to produce FLO. 

Singlet molecular oxygen (lC>2) is a very small electrophilic reagent that can produced by photosensitization and react easily with dienes and alkenes in [4 + or [2 + 2] cycloadditions or ene-reactions. In order to develop synthetic applic tions of photooxygenations, numerous studies have recently been developed wi chiral substrates and especially in the presence of chiral auxiliaries. 

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